I beleive the reason electrical coax spdif is often said to be better than optical toslink spdif is due to the relativly low bandwidth of the toslink transmitter and receiver. They were originally specced to have enough bandwidth to support spdif data rates, however, the relativly low bandwidth headroom can give rise to large amounts of jitter. I havn't checked how valid this is with current devices.
Saying spdif optical is better than spdif coax because high speed telecoms uses optical makes as much sense as saying my 10 year old renault is going to be better than your 10 year old honda because renault won the F1 constructors title this year. -- bludragon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bludragon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1530 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18772 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
